Have you discussed the prospect of homesickness with your kids?

[Guest63690]

Hi all, This is a repeat of a thread I started on the returning to the UK section, and it led to some interesting replies. But it is an equally valid discussion for this section too. So here goes. I read a very moving post by a young woman who moved to oz when she was nine and was then afflicted with acute delayed homesickness in her mid teens. She expressed in a very clear and moving way, how isolated this homesickness made her feel. She also said she appreciated that her parents moved to oz to give her a better life and she felt it would be ungrateful of her to 'winge' about her feelings. Her post had me in tears, and it got me thinking. How many parents discuss the subject of homesickness with their children before the big move (maybe to prepare them for it?). and while they are over in OZ, and if they did, how did they tackle it. And how did they respond if their children were unhappy pre and post emigration? Thanks

[snifter]

People will still find the original thread in MBTTUK. We generally don't encourage duplicate new threads. It may be better to just move the original thread to this section and delete this one :) Or merge them, depending on who replies.

ETA - Will lock this one and move the other thread to this section and bump it up once for you.